Artist Members

Meet our local artist winners for CCAN 2020

by: Robert K. Cleaves Here in Abilene and our surrounding area, we have a lot of artistic talent. Nothing has proved that more than seein...

Bill Wright

About the Artist Bill Wright began a successful business career after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a life mem...

Cara Hines

About the Artist Cara Hines started her life as a precocious artist in Childress, Texas. If she could draw, cut, color, paint, construct,...

Burgess "Bird" Thomas

About the Artist Burgess “Bird” Heslep Thomas was born in Abilene, Texas in 1953, in the midst of both a meteorological and cultural “dry...

Barry Arthur

About the Artist Barry Arthur spends most of his days in his studio doing what he likes best-painting cowboys, western scenes and wildlif...

Anthony Huff

About the Artist My work consists of assemblage, collage, oil sticks, and layers and layers of papers among other things. My pieces may ...

Anthony Brown

About the Artist The youngest of six children, Brown dreamed of becoming an artist from childhood and studied art at Syracuse University ...

Angie Cook

Isabel Allende writes in her autobiographical narrative, Paula, that she creates her life as she writes, that what she does not capture i...

Allison Britten

Allison Britten is a local artist who lives and works in The Big Country. She currently is employed at The Center for Contemporary Arts a...

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